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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abundance \A*bun"dance\, n. [OE. (h)abundaunce, abundance, F.
abondance, L. abundantia fr abundare See {Abound}.]
An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty;
profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly
applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble
blood hath been shed with small benefit to the
Christian state. --Raleigh.
Syn: Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness;
overflow; riches; affluence; wealth.
Usage: {Abundance}, {Plenty}, {Exuberance}. These words rise
upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness.
Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want as
plenty of food, plenty of money, etc Abundance
express more and gives the idea of superfluity or
excess; as abundance of riches, an abundance of wit
and humor; often however, it only denotes plenty in a
high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and
implies a bursting forth on every side producing
great superfluity or redundance; as an exuberance of
mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
abundance
n : the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an
age of abundance" [syn: {copiousness}] [ant: {scarcity}]
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